Shows
Find Your LightAll These Pieces (Venus Tyané)Venus-Tyané studied Musical Theater in Berlin, Germany. She has worked as a performer for many US productions, including Nickelodeon and Stories that Soar! She has performed in various large productions internationally, from Friedrichstadtpalast to Jazzclub Neukölln. Venus-Tyané worked as the Musical Director for the performing arts school JMEM Berlin, and the subsequent touring production. She has toured throughout Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Estonia, Czech Republic, India, South Korea and Japan. She has a passion for the arts and people's stories as expressed through their various cultures and is dedicated to making a positive impact that has a world ripple effect...2022-08-0444 min
Find Your LightThis Moment Will Fuel Us (Kate Buselle)
Dr. Kate Busselle is Founder of Heartland Intimacy Design & Training, which offers academic, accessible, and affordable intimacy training entirely online through self-paced asynchronous modules. She is also Assistant Professor of Movement and Stage Combat at the University of Oklahoma and is an Actor Combatant with the Society of American Fight Directors. As a researcher, Kate is an expert in de-roling and debriefing techniques, staging sexual violence, intimacy in new play development, and theatrical intimacy pedagogy.
Heartland Intimacy Design & Training Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/heartlandintimacydesign
Heartland Intimacy Design & Training Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/heartlandintimacydesign/
Heartland Intimacy Design & Training Twit...2022-07-251h 11
Find Your LightTake Your Cat on a Walk (Ebony Madry)Ebony Madry currently works for Brite Ideas CTS as a Lighting Designers and Project
Manager. Prior to COVID-19, Ebony oversaw the installation of audio, video, and
lighting for corporate and exclusive events. Ebony has been blessed to make the shift to
virtual and hybrid events with Brite Ideas CTS.
Ebony Madry is a graduate from the University of California, Irvine with a MFA in
Lighting Design. Ebony also received a BFA in Design from Texas Tech University.
Additionally, Ebony worked as an electrics assistant for The Arkansas Repertory
Theater for...2022-07-1836 min
Find Your LightA Better Theatre and a Better World (Cindy Cooper)Cindy Cooper (who also writes as Cynthia L. Cooper) often addresses topic of justice, women and human rights in lightly stylized plays that use a blend of drama and comedy. Her plays have been produced in New York at Primary Stages, The Women’s Project, Wings, Lincoln Center’s Clark Studio, MultiStages, New Circle Theatre Co, WOW Café, Museum of Tolerance, and many other venues, as well as in Chicago, Minneapolis, DC, Philadelphia, Boston, L.A., Montreal, Budapest and Jerusalem. A two-time Jerome Fellow, her plays are in 17 volumes and she has won awards from Pen & Brush, Samuel French, the Ma...2021-10-1458 min
Find Your LightA Little Personality (Laura McGhee)In this conversation with improv artist and commercial airline pilot Laura McGhee (she/her), we talk about staying calm under pressure, the power of resilience, and how bringing a little humor to the table can save lives.
In addition to being a proud alumna of The Second City Theater Toronto, Laura has an Honors Bachelor of Arts Degree from The University of Western Ontario. In Canada, Laura has written and performed on CBC RADIO and at the Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal. In 2002, Laura became the first person ever to script an entire show for The...2020-03-0356 min
Find Your LightHow You Tell Your Story (Dr. Kate Browne)Dr. Kate Browne (she/her) helps changemakers learn to love the spotlight. She is a speaker coach and personal brand expert with a background in theatre education and writing pedagogy. Kate holds a PhD in autobiographical rhetoric (or, how people write and speak about themselves) and her writing about body image and popular culture has appeared in Runner's World, Refinery29, FabUPlus, and Girls Gone Strong. Kate is also the lead speaker coach for TEDxNormal, a communication workshop facilitator and a singer. Follow Kate on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter at @drkatebrowne
Host: Emily Stamets (she/her) @theemilystamets
2020-02-211h 02
Find Your LightOpen Eyes & Ears & Hearts (Lynne Streeter Childress)In this episode, I talk about Theatre for Young Audiences as a profession, how working at Payless Show Source can change your life, and the value of authentic kindness with Lynne Childress.
Lynne Streeter Childress (she/her) is a playwright, actor, teaching artist, singer, director, and the founder and artistic director of Building Better People Productions, a professional theater company based in Annapolis, MD, that does shows for young audiences all based in themes of kindness, respect and the things that make us all better people. Her show, “We Got It!: A Show About Empathy”, is amo...2019-11-1257 min
Find Your LightEmotional Compound Interest (Rhianna Basore)Personalized money, the value of flexibility, and how to pursue your artistic dreams and the lifestyle you want (it's possible!).
Rhianna Basore (she/her) is an award-winning actress, director, and writer. She has been performing professionally for over 20 years in in stage, film, and TV, both here in the US and abroad. Her work as a content creator and director/producer includes CRAPSHOOT! (scheduled to headline the 2020 Marfa Fringe and will be featured at the Reykjavik Fringe in July). Her love of the creative life and its pursuits has sparked a passion for helping artists build financial stabilit...2019-11-071h 01
Find Your LightYes, AND (Margaret Dilloway)In this episode, I speak with Margaret Dilloway (she/her) about using improv to work through social anxiety, the connections between performing and novel-writing, and the value of YES, AND.
Margaret Dilloway is the author of 8 novels for adults and children, including the American Library Award-winning MOMOTARO: XANDER AND THE LOST ISLAND OF MONSTERS and THE CARE AND HANDLING OF ROSES WITH THORNS. She writes in the genres of contemporary and historical women’s fiction; middle grade fantasy; and middle grade contemporary. Descended from samurai and coal miners, Dilloway incorporates themes about the intersections of race, class, and cul...2019-09-0346 min
Find Your LightThe Terror of Halfway (Green Room with Emily)Why is that you can start a project with tons of excitement and energy, but then you get halfway and UGGGHHHH it's suddenly so much harder???
Join me in this session of the Green Room where we chat about why that happens, and wtf to do about it.
Join future Green Room sessions live: emilystamets.com/greenroom
Host: Emily Stamets (she/her)
Original music: Jaclyn S. O'Connor (she/her)
Graphics: Tiffany Spense (she/her)
2019-08-2332 min
Find Your LightDon't Work for Assholes (Isabella Byrd)I chat about seeking creative routine, being a "rehearsal-forward designer", and balancing light and dark with Isabella Byrd (she/her).
Isabella is a lighting designer based in Brooklyn, New York.
She was recently awarded an Obie for her design of Light Shining in Buckinghamshire at New York Theatre Workshop. (Check out the current / news page for the latest highlights.) Her design collaborations have been presented in New York City and regionally across the United States. With a special interest in developing new works, her process pivots/activates/blooms around design dramaturgy, musical movement, and color composition. Her wo...2019-08-211h 09
Find Your LightFueling Your Creativity (Amanda Hibschman)Amanda Hibschman (she/her, @amandathedietition) is an award winning San Diego based Registered Dietitian Nutritionist who is passionate about making food FUN! From cooking in clients homes, to developing menus, to teaching culinary techniques, to working with clients 1:1 to develop a healthy relationship with food. Amanda loves helping others find peace with food through mindful and intuitive eating techniques and provides weight neutral medical nutrition therapy for various conditions, including diabetes, renal disease, eating disorders, and gastrointestinal disorders. Amanda works with Athletes and Artists fuel themselves to reach peak performance while loving and honoring their bodies. When Amanda is...2019-08-1353 min
Find Your LightToxic Humility and What To Do About It (Green Room with Emily Stamets)You know you're ready to play big, but you keep holding yourself back. If you have thoughts like,
"I can't talk about my accomplishments or no one will like me,"
"If I try, I'll fail and that would be the worst possible thing to happen to any human being ever," or,
"Don't get too big for your britches, self!"
then you might be suffering from Toxic Humility.
The Green Room is free! It's my gift to our amazing creative community. To see the schedule and learn how t...2019-08-0926 min
Find Your LightBreathing Into It (Emily Rollie)Emily Rollie (she/her,@emilyrollie) is a passionate artist-scholar and freelance yogi-director, Emily Rollie (she/her/hers) is an assistant professor at Central Washington University, where she teaches theatre pedagogy, dramatic literature, theatre history, directing, acting, women's and gender studies, and yoga. Her primary research areas are directing, feminist theory and performance, Canadian theatre, and the relationship between mindfulness, yoga, and creativity. In addition to her scholarly and teaching endeavors, Emily also is a freelance theatre director and an associate member of the SDC (Stage Directors and Choreographers Society), for which she also serves as the associate book review editor...2019-08-0653 minFind Your LightWhy Your Art Isn't Fulfilling You (Green Room with Emily Stamets)Q: Why isn't your art (or your career, or your family) making you feel fulfilled, even though you're pouring everything you've got into those pursuits?
A: IT'S NOT SUPPOSED TO.
In this recording of Emily's Green Room group coaching session, we dive into WHY this is happening, and WTF to do about it.
See details about the Green Room HERE; it's free to pop in!
cw: adult language
host: Emily Stamets (she/her, @theemilystamets)
original music: Jaclyn S. O'Connor
graphics: Tiffany Spence
2019-08-0230 min
Find Your LightTheatre is Not Safe (Manjula Padmanabhan)cw: rape, sexual violence
Manjula Padmanabhan (she/her), is an author, playwright and cartoonist. Her play HARVEST won the 1997 Onassis Award for Theatre. Her weekly comic strip SUKIYAKI appears in Business Line, in Chennai, India. Her two most recent novels ESCAPE and THE ISLAND OF LOST GIRLS, are set in a brutal future world. She lives in the US, with a home in New Delhi.
Host: Emily Stamets (she/her, @theemilystamets)
original music: Jaclyn S. O'Connor
graphics: Tiffany Spence
2019-07-3054 min
Find Your LightLeaning Into the Discomfort of Growth (Running Lights with Emily)Hands up if you want something different for your life than what you've got now 🙋🏽♀️
Join Emily for 3 Big Thoughts about moving through the discomfort of change, so you can stop procrastinating and finally start creating at the level you were born to.
Emily is a Harvard-trained leader and coach for women+ in theatre and leaders in the arts.
cw: adult language
Host: Emily Stamets (she/her) @theemilystamets
Original music: Jaclyn S. O'Connor
graphics: Tiffany Spence
2019-07-2613 min
Find Your LightGospel of Authenticity (Bridget McCarthy)cw: adult language, religious trauma, eating disorder
Bridget McCarthy (she/her,@SomethingWittyPlease) is an actor, playwright, teaching artist, and community theatre maker.
In 2013, she stepped into a men’s prison for the first time and witnessed a theatre making circle. She fell in love with theatre as a tool of amplification, empowerment, and connection.
Since then, she’s worked with the American Shakespeare Center, Elm Shakespeare, Pigeon Creek Shakespeare, Cincinnati Shakeapeare, and is now in residence at the Atlanta Shakespeare Company.
Bridget’s greatest bliss is using theatre as a tool of ampli...2019-07-231h 05
Find Your LightTheatre is Personal Growth (Robin Murphy)In this episode, we talk about theatre as personal growth, the challenges of retiring from a 30 year teaching career, and what it's like to watch your kid perform on Broadway.
Robin Murphy (she/her) has spent a life in the theatre as a teacher, director, producer, and performer. She has spent 30 years teaching high school theatre and has directed over 100 productions. Robin has also been published in the Educational Theatre Associations professional journal. She has raised 4 children, and has two daughters in the industry. She also played Brutus in Julius Caesar in 6th grade, and wrote and directe...2019-07-0956 min
Find Your LightBe Present with What's in the Room (Kristel Brown)
In this week's episode, I talk self care, applied theatre, and what it means to be a parent AND artist with Kristel Jelinek Brown.
Kristel Jelinek Brown (she/her) is an actor, teaching artist, and mama. She is currently the Director of Voice, Theatrical, and Specialized Programming at Parlando School of Musical Arts. A Colorado native and NYC transplant of seven years, she holds a Masters Degree in Applied Theatre from the City University of New York as well as a BFA in Theatre Performance from the University of Colorado. Most recently, she was seen in Lysistrata Jones (Cleonice) at t...2019-07-0259 min
Find Your LightBe the Lighthouse, not the Spotlight (Jessica Hanna)Jessica Hanna (she/her) is a Los Angeles based Theater Maker and Artist in Residence at Thymele Arts. She is new member of The Kilroys, an activist artists group working for gender parity in the American Theater through guerilla actions. She has worked as an actor, director, choreographer and producer all over Los Angeles with many companies and spaces including, Open Fist, Sacred Fools, Evidence Room, John Anson Ford Amphitheatre, Greenway Court, Abundant Sugar, Occidental College, Atwater Village Theatre, Furious Theatre, Mine is Yours Theatre Co., B-Flat Productions, Center Theatre Group, Mutant Collective and Circle X. She has also...2019-06-251h 06
Find Your LightRadical Inclusivity (Julie Ouellette)Julie Ouellette (they/them, @officialjulieo) is an actor, writer, director, and producer whose work focuses heavily on empowering queer artists. As the Producing Artistic Director of The Commons Los Angeles, they strive to create work that challenges our artists, our audiences, and our industry.
Host: Emily Stamets (@theemilystamets)
Original music by Jaclyn S. O'Connor
Graphics by Tiffany Spence
2019-06-1856 min
Find Your LightSafety, Freedom, and Justice (Xemiyulu Tapepechul)Xemiyulu Tapepechul (she/ella, @XemiNeSiwayul) is a Two-Spirit actor, playwright, author, playwright, and educator. In 2015, she founded Nelwat Ishkamewe, a Two-Spirit (Native American Transgender, Intersex, Asexual, Queer+) collective of artists, healers, educators, and advocates, uplifting Two-Spirit Nation through art & land justice. She trained at the National Conservatory of Dramatic Arts, and has been featured on various DC Theatre productions, including Nelwat Ishkamewe's The Cosmic Twins, Protect & Preserve, and Siwayul (Heart of a Womxn). She is the 2018 Champion of the Ask Rayceen Show Annual Poetry Slam Competition, the 2018 "Hispanic Heritage Legacy Award" from the Latino GLBT History Project, the 2019 "40 Under 40: Queer Women...2019-06-111h 07
Find Your LightAsk Before You Touch (Chelsea Pace)Chelsea Pace (SDC, @professorpace, she/her/hers) is a Baltimore-based intimacy choreographer and co-founded Theatrical Intimacy Education with Laura Rikard. She choreographs and consults on best practices for staging intimacy, nudity, and sexual violence for professional and educational theatre companies and programs across the country. In addition to theatrical intimacy, Chelsea specializes in stage combat, devised work, and physical theatre. She is an Assistant Professor of Theatre at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and she is currently completing her book, Staging Sex, expected this fall from Routledge Publishing.
www.facebook.com/theatricalintimacyed
www.chelseapace.com2019-06-041h 05
Find Your LightGo Back and Get It (Autumn Jessica Mitchell)Autumn Jessica Mitchell (she/her, Facebook: ajmitchell26) is a freelance stage manager and aspiring production manager hailing from the historic city of Savannah, Georgia. Autumn is currently the Assistant Stage Manager for Man of Destiny and Fences at the American Players Theatre in Spring Green, Wisconsin. Recent stage management credits include The Better Half (Lucky Plush Productions), Acis and Galatea, Face on The Barroom Floor (Central City Opera), Don Giovanni, and November Dance 2017 (University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign). Autumn holds a B.A. in Theatre Arts with a concentration in Stage Management and Technical Theatre from Alabama State University...2019-05-281h 01
Find Your LightEveryone Can Play (Rosie Glen-Lambert & Veronica Tjioe)Rosie Glen-Lambert (@ringaroundro_z) is the Artistic Director and Founder of The Attic Collective and serves as the Literary Manager at Inkwell Theater. She has collaborated as a Director and Producer with a number of different theaters in Los Angeles including Sacred Fools, Inkwell Theater, Theater Planners, Bootleg Theater, Son of Semele, Occidental College, and MutantCollective. Rosie is thrilled to return to the Hollywood Fringe Festival to direct “The Last Croissant”! Her prior fringe project, “Dead Dog’s Bone: A Birthday Play” won the 2015 Encore Producer’s Award and earned her a nomination for best direction. Rosie is passionate about new and engaging...2019-05-211h 18
Find Your LightAt the End of the Day, It's a Circus (Alana Clapp)Alana Clapp (General Stage Manager – Mystere by Cirque du Soleil) Alana began her career with Cirque du Soleil in 2009 with the show O at the Bellagio. She joined the Stage Management team of Mystère in 2012, and is currently the General Stage Manager for the company's longest running Las Vegas production. An advocate for arts educational programs and youth mentorship, Alana has presented at various universities throughout the country including Chapman University, University of California – Irvine, and Carnegie Mellon University, her alma mater. In addition to her work with Cirque, Alana is a guest lecturer at the College of Southern Nevada, i...2019-05-1458 min
Find Your LightThe Magic Happens at the End (Lucy Wang)Lucy Wang is a playwright, performance artist, professor, editor, public speaker, and comedienne... with an extraordinary laugh! We chat about writing for youth, writing for diversity, and the impact that one teacher had when he told her a Chinese girl couldn't be in Li'l Abner.
Find her on social media @sensuousgourmet, or her website: https://sites.google.com/site/chickfillet/
Host: Emily Stamets, @theemilystamets, emilystamets.com
Original music by Jaclyn S. O'Connor
2019-05-0751 min
Find Your LightYou Are Not Alone (Kaja Dunn)KAJA DUNN (@KajaDunn) is an Assistant Professor of Theatre and teaches acting at the University of North Carolina Charlotte as well as being an actor, director, and activist. Her research targets reshaping pedagogy for theatre students of color as well as Decolonization and Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion issues in theatre and their application in academic, professional and corporate settings. This year she is joining Theatrical Intimacy Education as an Associate Faculty specializing in EDI Issues. She has performed in over 40 shows and was an associate artist at both Moxie Theatre and Lamb’s Players in San Diego. She has performe...2019-04-301h 21
Find Your LightKnow Who You Are, Be Who You Are (Carolyn Gage)Carolyn Gage is a playwright, performer, director, and activist. The author of three books on lesbian theatre and seventy-five plays, musicals, and one-woman shows, she specializes in non-traditional roles for women, especially those reclaiming famous lesbians whose stories have been distorted or erased from history. She also specializes in plays about survivors of sexual violence. She is perhaps best known for her one-woman show, The Second Coming of Joan of Arc, which toured for over 20 years.
cw: incest, child sexual abuse
Host: Emily Stamets
Music: Jaclyn S. O'Connor
contact: podcast@emilystamets...2019-04-231h 16
Find Your LightFollow Your Passions (Catie Osborn)Catie Osborn is the Entertainment Director of the GA Renaissance Festival, knows 99.7% of what there is to know about Shakespeare, and is adamant that we should do all the weird shit we think we might some day want to learn how to do.
2019-04-1656 min
Find Your LightTheatrical Humans are the Best at Being HumanWelcome to Find Your Light! This mini episode tells you what the heck this podcast is about, along with a Voices from the Ensemble segment, where we hear from listeners just like you!
Host: Emily Stamets
Composer: Jaclyn S. O'Connor
Graphics: Tiffany Spence
2019-04-1632 min